ENCYRTIDAE Walker, 1837
(a family of chalcid wasps)

ENCYRTIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

ENCYRTIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Cheiloneurus albicornis
a chalcid wasp
Species 1 trophisms
ENCYRTINAE
a subfamily of hymenopterans
Subfamily 11 subtaxa 14 trophisms
Encyrtus aurantii
a chalcid wasp
Species 1 trophisms
Metablastothrix claripennis
a chalcid wasp
Species 1 trophisms
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyENCYRTIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps)
SuperfamilyCHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ENCYRTIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps)

ENCYRTIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Claridge, M.F. 1958 *** The British and Scandinavian species of the genus Cheiloneurus Westwood (Hym: Encyrtidae) ***(Superseded) Ent. Mon. Mag. 94: 156-161.
Shaw, M.R., Stefanescu, C. & van Nouhuys, S. Parasitoids of European butterflies Shaw, M.R., Stefanescu, C. & van Nouhuys, S. Parasitoids of European butterflies, 27pp, Ecology of Butterflies in Europe

Hosts

Hammond, H.E. & Smith, K.G.V. 1957 On some parasitic Diptera and Hymenoptera bred from lepidopterous hosts. Part 3: records of Tachinidae (Dipt.), Braconidae, Ichneumonidae, Encyrtidae, Pteromalidae, Eulophidae and Scelionidae (Hym.) Ent. Gazette 8: 181-189.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to ENCYRTIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps):

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